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DETECTIVE STORIES by WASHINGTON PETER
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Category: Crime | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
This is a glorious collection of some of the best sleuths in the business. It includes creators such as Poe and Conan Doyle to Hammet, Christie, Chandler, Rendell and Rankin.
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman; Polly Jones (Introduction by); Robert Chandler (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the Red Army, and around an extended family, the Shaposhnikovs, and their many friends and acquaintances, Life and Fate recounts the experience of characters caught up in an immense ...Show more
Love in a Cold Climate and the Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford; Laura Thompson (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
Nancy Mitford modelled the characters in her best-known novels on her own unconventional (and at the time of writing, notorious) family. We are introduced to the Radletts through the eyes of their cousin, Fanny ('the Bolter's girl'), on one of her frequent visits to their country estate: Uncle Matthew t ...Show more
STORIES OF THE SEA by EVERYMAN
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
A gathering of the best maritime fiction from the last two hundred years: tales of shipwrecks and storms at sea, of creatures from the deep, of voyages that test human limits on the wild and limitless waters. Classic adventures stories by Joseph Conrad, Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Crane, Robert Louis Steve ...Show more
Stories of Trees, Woods, and Forests
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library POCKET CLASSICS Ser.
Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of literature has long been enlivened by wild woodlands, sacred groves, and fertile orchards. This delightful collection ranges from Ovid to Austen and from Robin Hood's Sherwood For ...Show more
The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric; Misha Glenny (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
The town of Visegrad was long caught between the warring Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires, but its sixteenth-century bridge survived unscathed--until 1914 when tensions in the Balkans triggered the first World War. Spanning generations, nationalities, and creeds, The Bridge on the Drina brilliantly ...Show more
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Vols 1-3 by Edward Gibbon
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Category: History | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Easily the most celebrated historical work in English, Gibbon's account of the Roman empire was in its time a landmark in classical and historical scholarship and remains a remarkable fresh and powerful contribution to the interpretation of Roman history more than two hundred years after its first appea ...Show more
The Grapes of Wrath (Everyman's Library HB) by STEINBECK JOHN
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
This reader is accompanied with a CD that contains the full audio of the text in MP3 format.During the Great Depression in the United States, and after the loss of their farm in Oklahoma, the Joad family is faced with a journey of more than one thousand miles to California in search of a better life. Ca ...Show more
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway; Nicholas Gaskill (Introduction by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library CLASSICS Ser.
"The ideal companion for troubled times: equal parts Continental escape and serious grappling with the question of what it means to be, and feel, lost." -- The Wall Street JournalOne of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadThe Sun Also Rises is a classic example of Hemingway's spa ...Show more
The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volume I - They Were Counted by Miklos Banffy; Hugh Thomas (Introduction by); Patrick Thursfield (Translator); Katalin Banffy-Jelen (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
**Washington Post Best Books of 2013**The celebrated TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY by Count Mikl s B nffy is a stunning historical epic set in the lost world of the Hungarian aristocracy just before World War I. Written in the 1930s and first discovered by the English-speaking world after the fall of communism ...Show more
The Transylvanian Trilogy, Volumes II and III - They Were Found Wanting, They Were Divided by Miklos Banffy; Hugh Thomas (Introduction by); Patrick Thursfield (Translator); Katalin Banffy-Jelen (Translator)
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
**Washington Post Best Books of 2013**The celebrated TRANSYLVANIAN TRILOGY by Count Mikl s B nffy is a stunning historical epic set in the lost world of the Hungarian aristocracy just before World War I. Written in the 1930s and first discovered by the English-speaking world after the fall of communism ...Show more
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live : Collected Nonfiction by Joan Didion
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Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Joan Didion's incomparable and distinctive essays and journalism are admired for their acute, incisive observations and their spare, elegant style. Now the seven books of nonfiction that appeared between 1968 and 2003 have been brought together into one thrilling collection. "Slouching Towards Bethlehem ...Show more
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